Data Cleaning Chinese Text with OpenRefine: Punctuation Removal
So you have heard about some cool text analysis tools that identify word frequencies, generate word clouds, and look for…
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Book and Document Scanning with the CZUR Aura X Pro
I recently purchased a CZUR Aura X Pro to scan documents and books in my office, home, and at libraries…
Turning a Zotero bibliography into an online, browsable catalog
You can turn any collection of books and articles from Zotero into a website that is easy to search, accessible…
The Digital Syriac Corpus: An Interview with Prof. James E. Walters
In addition to the contributions of the Beth Mardutho Institute to the world of Syriac Digital Humanities (which I have…
Fingernail Art (I): Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century
Part I : Iran Abstract Fingernail art is a little known and studied Persian artistic medium, which was used in…
Virtual Reality from Mamluk-Period Cairo
Several months ago, some of my colleagues in Japan launched an online portal through which it is possible to explore…
‘Back to the Sources’: The First Steps in (Digital) Projects
During my training I was lucky enough to benefit from some of the most authoritative voices in the field of…
Digitized Hebrew and Greek Manuscripts: Access and Issues
Biblical work obviously primarily relies on working with “the text.” However, as anyone involved in biblical studies knows, there really…
Visualizing North China Under Japanese Occupation: Digitized Photos of the North China Railway Archive
Digitizing the Visual Legacies of the North China Transportation Company The North China Railway Archive (華北交通アーカイブ) is an online database…
Deciphering Ottoman Turkish Manuscripts with LexiQamus
Sometimes it takes days or even weeks to be able to read and decipher a word in manuscripts. This problem,…